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(No Model.)

E. GUION.

- DRESS MAKERS FITTING CHAIR.

Patented F eb.. 22, 1887.

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ELISABETH GUION, OF NEW' YORK, N. Y.

DRESS-MAKERS FITTING-CHAIR.

$PECIFICATEON forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,198, dated February 22, 1887.

Application filed July 29,1886. Serial No. 209,335. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELISABETH GUION, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Dress-Makers Fitting-Chair, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is toprovide an adjustable chair embodying certain novel fea tures of construction which especially adapt it to the use of dress-makers as a fitting-chair, the object of the invention being to render the chair adjustable as to height,to provide for the turning of the seat, and to arrange for a proper adjustment of the foot-rest;

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a view of the back of the chair, a portion of the foot-rest and one of the adjusting-nuts employed in connection ,,therewith being shown in section, and Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional View of the chair.

The stool or supportingframe of my improved form of chair consists of an upper plate or frame, 10, that is mounted upon legs 11. The frame or plate 10 is provided with a hollow tube, 12, that extends downward from the center of the plate, a slot, 13, being formed at the upper end of one side of the tube, while a central opening registering with the bore of the tube is formed in the plate. Within the tube 12 there is arranged a rack, 14, to the upper end of which there is rigidly secured a plate or frame, 15, the rack, however, being provided with an upwardly-extending central projection, 16, which passes through a central aperture formed in the plate 15, and through a second plate or frame, 17, which acts as the base or support for the upholstered seat 18, the plate 17 being held against displacement by a nut, 19, which is threaded to engage with a thread formed on the extension 16; or, if desired, the parts can be held together by rivetin".

i1 horizontal shaft, 20, is mounted in proper bearings, 21, that are secured to the plate or frame 10, and this shaft 20 carries a pinion, 22, a ratchet-wheel, 23, and a crank-arm, 24, the pinion being arranged to engage withthc rack 14, While the ratchet is arranged to be en the pawl 25, the lowering of the seat being brought about by raising the pawl from engagement with the ratchet, and allowing the seat to fall to the desired elevation, it being, of course, understood that the crank-arm 24 is at this time held so as to prevent too rapid a movement of the seat.

Afoot-rest, 27, is supported by downwardlyextending rods 28, that are rigidly secured to the plate 15, connection between the foot-rest and the rods being established through the medium of adjusting-nuts 29, said nuts being inserted through apertures formed in the footrest and then riveted to place, from which arrangement it will be seen that the foot-rest may be adjusted so as to properly support the feet of individuals of different heights. Any proper form of back, as'30, may be secured to the plate or frame 15.

It will be noticed that the plate from which the foot-rest is formed is centrally apertured to allow for the passage of the tube 12, and in practice I prefer that this central aperture,

which is shown at 2 in Fig. 2, should be so proportioned that the tube 12 will closely fit therein, in order that the footrest may form aguide and support for the seat, thus relieving the rack 14c from any undue strain.

The chair described will be found to beexceedingly convenient for the use for which it is intended, it being well understood that the fitting of a ladys dress is at best a tiresome operation; but'with myimproved chair a lady may sit during the operation of the fitting of the waist, and the operator may adjust the chair to any required height, as may be most convenient for herself and the occupant; and not only may the chair be adjusted as to-height, but the seat proper may be turned upon its central connection with the plate 15.

Although I have described my improved form of chair as a dress-makers fitting-chair, it will, of course, be understood that the chair could be used 'asamusic stool or chair, orthat it could be used as an office-chair, and, in fact, the chair could be used as might be deemed to be advisable forbusincss or domestic purposes.

I am aware that chair-seats have been pivoted to the upper ends of racks sliding in supports andengaged by pinions on crank-shafts, and I am also aware that the seat has been pivoted to a rack by a ball-and-socket joint, and I am further aware that bars adjnstably secured in keepers on the under side of the seat have been provided with adjustable footrests, and I therefore do not claim such in ventions.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is-

1. A dress-makers chair consisting ofa supporting-frame provided with a downwardlyprojecting and slotted tube, a rack in the said tube and carrying a plate at its upper end, a seat pivoted to the upper end of the rack to swing in ahorizontal plane, a crank-shaft pr0- vided with a pinion projecting through the slot of the tube and engaging the rack-rods projecting downward from the plate carried by the rack, and a foot-rest adjustably secured on said rods. substantially as herein shown and described.

2. In a dress-makers chair, the combination, withthesupporting-frame provided with the slotted tube 12 13, of the rack 14, provided with the projection 16, the plate 15 on the said projection, the seat 18, pivoted on the projection to swing in a horizontal plane, the shaft 20, provided with the pinion 22, ratchet-wheel 23, and crank-arm 24, and the pawl 25, provided with the handle 26, substantially as herein shown and described.

ELISABETH GUION.

Witnesses:

E. G. BURT, ll. Lrr'rLn. 

